I'm Sean.

I took Nainoa on a date last Monday and we saw The Secret World of Arrietty. Now he calls himself Sean, the lead boy character and of course I am Arrietty. I love pretend play.

Raising Cain: Protecting the Inner Lives of Boys

Eye and I watched this great documentary Raising Cain: Protecting the Inner Lives of Boys. I picked it up from our local library. It was really interesting and I highly suggest to my mommy friends who have boys. Someone watch it so I can talk to someone about it!

ABC

Samia

Can you believe how talented Dan's daughter is? I can' believe how talented she is. I remember when she was born. Wasn't it yesterday? I wonder if Nainoa will take a liking to the arts. Wow time flies. I'm so proud of Sam. Enjoy!

Walking Part 2

Cruising & Walking

Happy Birthday Dada! AAAHHHH

This is how Nainoa and I feel with out Dada on his birthday.

(This is one of Eye's favorite videos, especially at .47 seconds)

Happy Birthday Dada! We miss you :(

Valentine Party

My new friend, Sofia's (cute one year old with red balloon) mom, invited me to a Valentine's party at Gymboree. Nainoa LOVED it. He had such a great time. I'm debating on whether to sign us up for a weekly class. $65 dollars a month is a lot to spend for just one 45 min class once a week and open gym times that happen during his nap time. I do love the fact that Nainoa can go off and practice standing on cushy mats, climb on padded stairs and interact with other babies his age. The sharing of toys that have been in other kids mouth kinda freaked me out though. I'm taking a free class this Thursday. If he really likes it I have to seriously think about joining. I don't know...is it worth it? Is it over rated? Is good for him? Hmmmm....but he had so much fun just look at him!

Future Stompers

This past weekend we went to L.A. to visit Eye. Nainoa came down with a cough and we basically stayed in the hotel Friday & Saturday since it was raining. Sunday he felt better so we went to Marley's 1st birthday party. It was so good to see my old Stomp crew with their kids. I loved seeing the Stomp Daddy's jam with their sons. So precious. Happy Birthday Marls!

Auntie Ameenah

Auntie Fiona

Laughing with Lolo

I came across this video and I just had to share.

I love this picture too

Happy Birthday Dan!

Last night Eye and I went out to celebrate Dan's 40th birthday. First of all it was SO nice to actually get dressed, put on make up and do my hair. Second, it was so nice to actually spend time out of the house with Eye. Since he's been on the road my Friday night usually consists of going to Target, Trader Joe's or something real exciting like spending way to much time on Facebook. Dan's small gatherings are usually a star studded event and I usually don't get star strucked because I grew up in L.A. and I am used to seeing celebrities. I don't know if it's because I live in Vegas and I pretty much DON'T go out but last night I TOTALLY got star strucked with Rikki Lake. I mean her movie, "Business of Being Born" inspired me to try a home birth. So I tell Dan, "DUDE you HAVE to reintroduce me to Rikki." I am like freaking out. THEN it happens I sit across from her at dinner and SHE starts a conversation with ME and says, "Coralissa, (didn't even know she knew my name) Dan's been showing me pictures of your baby he's so cute." OMG (Dan your awesome) I am totally floored! I ended up thanking her for her work on educating women on different birthing choices and how her website My Best Birth totally helped me through pregnancy and my C-section. Rikki was so welcoming, nurturing and so so nice when I talked about my birth story. THEN we ended up talking about Barre and she told me she was totally addicted and takes it in L.A.! She was definitely the highlight of my night. Happy Birthday Dan. Thanks for being born yesterday so I can have a night out with my husband and meet one of my idols.

If you haven't seen Dan's show then you might night understand this birthday video I made him. I promise you I won't encourage my son to curse.

8 Months!

Nainoa is 8 months old today! Sigh...I say this every month, but it is happening WAY too fast! He's growing up to be such a little dude. Nainoa loves to talk and yell. Right now his favorite word is "dadadadadaddaddad" (of course)

He still isn't the biggest fan of eating. I wouldn't say he's a good eater just yet. He does like rice cereal with breast milk, peas and applesauce. Oh and he likes mangoes too!

He LOVES to stand now. Lolo's new favorite thing to do is count how fast he can stand. His best time is 5 seconds. Today Lolo said he stood up without hanging on for one second!

Not sure how much he weighs yet. I'm thinking he is 22.5 or maybe 23 pounds. We'll see on his 9 month pediatrician visit.

Oh we were all featured in our friend Leigh's blog. Her blog post was about Baby Cuddles.

I've been a bit overwhelmed these past couple of days. I started school on Tuesday. Hopefully in two years I can get my Physical Therapy Assistant degree. I am so thankful for Lola & Lolo's help. With Eye on tour they take care of the boy while I go to school, study, teach Pilates,Barre and blog. I seriously could not do it with out them here. I KNOW how lucky I am. Now if I can fit in sleep somewhere in this equation it will be ALL good!

Eating Pianos

My baby is SO big he eats pianos.

Christmakwanzacrawling

It's official. Nainoa is crawling. Music is from Dan's Christmas album, "Ho: A Dan Band Xmas" which can be bought on iTunes just in time for Christmas! He's also going to be on Jay Leno tonight at 10pm!

www.thedanband.com

7 months!

Lolo calls Nainoa "Mochart" (his way of saying Mozart) whenever Nainoa sits in front of his piano. Enjoy my little 7 month old Mochart!!

Party In My Tummy!

Thank you Yo Gabba Gabba for this song that is so fitting.

Roll Out Part 2

Girl Power!

So the last two Saturday nights I have spent it with my girls, Jen & Elaine. Last weekend we saw Whip It, a coming of age, woman empowerment movie staring Ellen Paige. Drew Barrymore's directorial debut.

I LOVE Drew. Ever since E.T. I have loved her. I loved her through out her drug problems, throughout her bad movies and good movies. She's a fellow Piscean who's life journey is pretty inspiring. Last night I went to check out the Sin City Roller Girls with my girls and

we had a blast! I fantasized on what my roller name would be and if I would be a Jammer or a Blocker. Needless to say it was a great game and the Notorious VIP's won.

I am girl's girl. I love my girlfriends and I feel inspired and empowered by all the women in my life. Thank you to all my girls out there. I love you all so much and I wish we all lived in the same city. If you haven't seen Whip It go!

Sin City Roller Girls

hot4teacher, pot tato, and ??? (rollaforce, k.f.p., lava)

Go see the Hangover

Yesterday Eye and I actually went on a date! We left Nainoa with Lola and went to see the Hangover. I was a bit nervous leaving him for so long. I kept thinking about him all the way to the movies, when we were in line, during the preview and a bit when the movie started. But the movie was so HILARIOUS that I relaxed a bit and really got into the movie. Eye's BFF Dan, from The Dan Band, is the wedding singer and he is so funny. You have to go see it!!!

Also Eye is going on a West Coast tour with Dan. Check out the dates here and he is also going to play the Nokia in L.A. on July 11th! Buy tickets here!

Stompin' in Utero @ 38 Weeks

I'm not kidding when I say that my boy is definitely Stomping in the womb.  I'm serious.  The amount of times I feel his feet stomp on my ribs and see his feet or heels protruding out of my belly is crazy.  Maybe it's because I Stomped until 5 months.   I guess he's just use to it by now.  Today I had to go through fetal monitoring and he just didn't want to stay still.   He was moving all around making music out of whatever he can kick.  Needless to say his heartbeat was great.  The ultrasound tech said he looked great.  My amnio fluid was at 19.5 which is good. (they like to see it above 10)  She said when my water breaks it's gonna GUSH out.   He was practicing breathing which is great.    He's gonna come out with a lot of hair!  We saw it floating around in the amniotic fluid.  

Today I took my mom and Eye to see a foreign film called Sin Nombre.  It was great.  I like foreign films, especially in Spanish.  During the movie I definitely felt a couple of Braxton Hicks contractions.  Eye calls them "practice hicks" because they are practice contractions.  It didn't hurt, it just felt like period cramps.  My stomach got really really tight during the contraction.   Sigh...it's definitely coming.  I can't believe I'm already 38 weeks.  Where did all that time go?